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Asus ZenWiFi XT9

Affordable mesh system that doesn't disappoint

Asus ROG Strix Z790-A Gaming WiFi D4

Good value Raptor Lake motherboard.

Sapphire Radeon RX 6700

Strong competition for Intel's Arc

Velocity Micro Raptor Z95

Top-end components, overclocked for your pleasure

GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition

Does it measure up to the RTX 4090?

INTEL'S 13TH GENERATION

Raptor Lake looking fierce

Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition

Player 3 has joined the game

Crucial P3 Plus 2TB

More capacity. Less cash. But is there a hidden cost?

Gmail vs. Outlook

What's the best platform for managing your email?

Return to Monkey Island

Deep in the Caribbean, there's a three-headed monkey

NZXT H7

Sleek and stylish, but is it the best?

BenQ X3000i

Game big or go home?

HP Spectre x360 16 2-in-1

An outstanding OLED-powered, 16-inch all-rounder

Lenovo Legion Y25-30

This gaming panel is a nifty little number

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

Insane multithreaded performance

GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition

A tour de force for Nvidia's Ada Lovelace

Manage hardware with Windows 11

KEEPING TABS ON THE VARIOUS COMPONENTS and peripherals that make up your PC's hardware can be a time-consuming task, but Windows 11 has you covered. The operating system has long offered a myriad of tools for managing and tweaking your hardware but has traditionally struggled to make them easily accessible and sensibly organized.

Apple Watch Ultra

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Ethereum ends mining, EVGA exits GPU market

THE PC LANDSCAPE IS ABOUT TO see the biggest upheaval in years. AMD Zen 4 CPUs, Intel Raptor Lake, Nvidia Ada Lovelace, and AMD RDNA 3 are all here or coming soon. But perhaps just as big and impactful on the PC enthusiast community is the successful transition of Ethereum from proof of work mining to proof of stake minting—the very next day, EVGA announced that it would be closing down its graphics card division.

Logitech Goes Cloud Gaming

Logitech's handheld is like a customized smartphone for streaming games from the cloud.

STADIA'S DEAD

Google pulls out of cloud gaming

Nvidia's Hot New Card

Both metaphorically and literally

Nvidia's Lovelace letdown

TRADE CHAT | IT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE this way. 2022 had all the makings of a stellar year for PC graphics, so good it would make up for the pandemic- and crypto-fueled bubble. Alas, Nvidia has kicked off the latest round of GPU launches with the RTX 40 Series, otherwise known as Lovelace. And it’s a crushing disappointment. It’s also worrying for AMD’s upcoming GPUs.

NVIDIA'S ADA LOVELACE ARCHITECTURE

Potentially the biggest jump in generational GPU performance ever

History of Apple

With Apple now in its fourth decade, Craig Grannell explores some of the key products from its history, the impact they had on gaming, and the sometimes surprising impact that gaming had on Apple itself

Corsair 7000D Airflow

Massive case and makes the Intel NUCs look tiny

BenQ X3000i

ARE YOU LOOKING to create an exciting and fun space in which to sit back and unwind?

LINUX IN SPACE!

With the OS now established in astronautics, Mike Bedford looks at its future prospects

WD Black SN850X 1TB

WD gives its top SSD some added X-factor

HyperX DuoCast

HyperX's midrange mic suffers from middle child syndrome